Mike Cramer wrote: > Jason Bassford wrote: > >> Bad behaviour (causing >> unnecessary traffic) as a default on the part of a browser should not >> be condoned. > > > > Let's see here. Assume you get 1000 pageviews a day from 100 people. A > request for /favicon.ico is something like what? 30 characters? Plus a > response about the same size (if you "touch favicon.ico")? And this > happens once per user? That's 3K worth of traffic. Add a 2K favicon and > you end up with 63K of traffic.
And adds a 400-byte error report to your log. Now look at a site like mozilla.org, which gets 15 million hits a month. Assume it doesn't want a favicon, that most users use Mozilla/Netscape, and that each Mozilla user's browser checks for the icon once a week - say once every 100 page loads. How many bogus log entries is that in a month? 300Mb. Why should webmasters have to put up with or work around this? Gerv
